Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Friday made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence, unless a judge grants her request to remain free while her lawyers appeal her conviction for masterminding a blood-testing hoax.
Tesla founder Elon Musk has been cleared of wrongdoing for a tweet in which he said he had “funding secured” to take the electric carmaker back into private ownership.
In a brief order, issued on Jan. 9 and made public the next day, the court ordered a reset of “the matter for conference on February 1, 2023,” and agreed with Lake’s arguments that her challenge should be handled as a “special action petition.” The court date was reportedly scheduled for March.
Corporate litigation rarely counts as a public service, but the lawsuit Exxon Mobil recently filed against the European Union is an exception. If it succeeds, the oil major’s challenge to a windfall profits tax could spare Brussels a big policy mistake and force it to honor its own rules.
An Arizona state senator and several voters in Mohave County filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County officials over the Nov. 8 midterm elections, drawing a rebuke from a Maricopa supervisor.
Judge Peter Thompson, in issuing the (pdf) order, wrote that the court has “reviewed” Lake’s “verified statement of election contest” and said the “matter will be set on an accelerated basis.”
The 53-year-old former CEO Markus Braun, who has been in custody since his arrest in 2020, and two other managers of the defunct blue chip firm face charges including fraud and market manipulation.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes should spend 15 years in prison and pay $800 million in restitution to investors defrauded in the blood testing start-up, U.S. prosecutors recommended late on Friday.
A judge recently ordered Fauci, Biden’s top medical adviser, and other high-level officials to testify in a case alleging collusion between Big Tech companies and the government to censor users.
It is unclear whether Trump was threatening to bring legal action against the Jan. 6 Committee, or something else.
A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s threat.
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